I downloaded, built and installed a sample pypi project. It is assumed that the project is used to give an idea of ββpython packaging and is referenced in the Python Packaging User Guide and Packaging and Distributing Projects . Therefore, I am confused by why on earth, following their instructions for creating a package, I have an error when deleting it.
As mentioned above, I used my sample project. If someone can shed light, it will be appreciated.
Key notes: I am running Mac OSX, my installed python version is 3.5.1 The following are the steps to reproduce the problem:
mkdir testdirectory
cd testdirectory/
pyvenv venv # Creating a virtual environment
source venv/bin/activate
git clone https://github.com/pypa/sampleproject.git # Getting sample project
cd sampleproject/
python setup.py build
python setup.py install # Installing on the virtual environment
pip list
peppercorn (0.5)
pip (7.1.2)
sample (1.2.0)
setuptools (18.2)
pip uninstall sample
The result of the following output:
Uninstalling sample-1.2.0:
/Users/steve/testdirectory/venv/bin/sample
/Users/steve/testdirectory/venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/sample-1.2.0-py3.5.egg
Proceed (y/n)? y
Successfully uninstalled sample-1.2.0
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/steve/testdirectory/venv/bin/pip3", line 11, in <module>
sys.exit(main())
File "/Users/steve/testdirectory/venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pip/__init__.py", line 217, in main
return command.main(cmd_args)
File "/Users/steve/testdirectory/venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pip/basecommand.py", line 248, in main
pip_version_check(session)
File "/Users/steve/testdirectory/venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pip/utils/outdated.py", line 102, in pip_version_check
installed_version = get_installed_version("pip")
File "/Users/steve/testdirectory/venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pip/utils/__init__.py", line 858, in get_installed_version
working_set = pkg_resources.WorkingSet()
File "/Users/steve/testdirectory/venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 629, in __init__
self.add_entry(entry)
File "/Users/steve/testdirectory/venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 685, in add_entry
for dist in find_distributions(entry, True):
File "/Users/steve/testdirectory/venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2075, in find_eggs_in_zip
if metadata.has_metadata('PKG-INFO'):
File "/Users/steve/testdirectory/venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 1605, in has_metadata
return self.egg_info and self._has(self._fn(self.egg_info, name))
File "/Users/steve/testdirectory/venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 1963, in _has
return zip_path in self.zipinfo or zip_path in self._index()
File "/Users/steve/testdirectory/venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 1843, in zipinfo
return self._zip_manifests.load(self.loader.archive)
File "/Users/steve/testdirectory/venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 1783, in load
mtime = os.stat(path).st_mtime
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/Users/steve/testdirectory/venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/sample-1.2.0-py3.5.egg'
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